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Childhood mortality during and after acute illness in Africa and S. Asia: a cohort study [PDF]

, 2022
Background Mortality among children with acute illness in low-income and middle-income settings remains unacceptably high and the importance of post-discharge mortality is increasingly recognised.
Berkley, James
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Scrub typhus in a febrile patient and challenges faced in a diagnosis-constrained health centre: A case report

SAGE Open Medical Case Reports, 2023
Scrub typhus is an acute febrile bacterial illness and has a high mortality if left untreated. It is caused by bacterium called Orientia tsutsugamushi which is transmitted to humans as zoonosis by bite of chigger mites that are infected by the bacterium.
Tej Nath Nepal, Sonam Drukpa
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ACUTE FEBRILE ILLNESS

The Professional Medical Journal, 2015
Oral anticoagulation is needed in many patients like after prosthetic valvesinsertion, in atrial fibrillation, clots in LA, clots in LV and DVT etc. It is mainly achieved by warfarinsodium which has many interactions with multiple other drugs and its action varies in differentother chronic diseased states.
Shahbaz Ahmad, Mohsin Nazir, Faisal Ali, Muhammad Sajid, Rehan Riaz, Raja Pervaiz Akhtar   +5 more
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Likely health outcomes for untreated acute febrile illness in the tropics in decision and economic models; a Delphi survey. [PDF]

, 2011
BACKGROUND: Modelling is widely used to inform decisions about management of malaria and acute febrile illnesses. Most models depend on estimates of the probability that untreated patients with malaria or bacterial illnesses will progress to severe ...
Mbacham, W, Grant Dorsey, Paul N Newton, Pasvol Geoffrey, Taylor, T, Lubell Yoel, Umberto D'Alessandro, Molyneux, M, D'Alessandro Umberto, Kathryn Maitland, Mbacham, Wilfred, Snow, Robert W, Moses R. Kamya, Yoel Lubell, Snow, RW, Robert W Snow, Dorsey, G, Binka Fred, Owusu-Agyei Seth, Molyneux Malcolm, Newton, PN, Nicholas J White, Greenwood Brian M., Geoffrey Pasvol, Kamya Moses R., White Nicholas J., Nicholas J. White, Brian M Greenwood, von Seidlein Lorenz, von Seidlein, Lorenz, Day, Nick, Owusu-Agyei, S, Lubell, CJM, Sarah G Staedke, Moses R Kamya, Greenwood, BM, Mbacham, W., Arjen Dondorp, White, N. J., Dorsey, Grant, Owusu-Agyei, Seth, Newton, P. N., Kremsner, Peter, White, Nicholas J, Pasvol, G., Maitland, K, Paul N. Newton, English Mike, Terrie Taylor, Newton, Paul, Staedke Sarah G., Lubell, Y, Maitland Kathryn, Pasvol, G, Kamya, M. R., Fred Binka, Newton, C, Binka, Fred, Dondorp, Adrianus, Christopher J M Whitty, Reyburn, Hugh, English, M., Krishna, Sanjeev, von Seidlein, L., Mbacham Wilfred, Pasvol, Geoffrey, Day, Nicholas, Robert W. Snow, White, NJ, Brian M. Greenwood, Kremsner Peter, Mills, A., Lubell, Yoel, Greenwood, Brian M, Maitland, Kathryn, Mills, Anne, Reyburn, H., Snow Robert W., Molyneux, M., Molyneux, Malcolm, Whitty, C. J., Snow, Robert, Christopher J. M. Whitty, Dorsey Grant, Whitty Christopher J. M., Lorenz von Seidlein, Snow, R. W., English, M, Newton, Paul N, Whitty, CJ, D'Alessandro, U., Dondorp, A., Owusu-Agyei, S., von Seidlein, L, Staedke, Sarah G, Krishna, S., Mills, A, Reyburn Hugh, Greenwood, B. M., Sanjeev Krishna, Dondorp, Arjen, Nick Day, Newton Charles, Sarah G. Staedke, Charles Newton, English, Mike, Staedke, S. G., White, Nicholas, Kremsner, P, Maitland, K., Kremsner, P., Day, N, Day Nick, Taylor, T., Malcolm Molyneux, Kamya, MR, Newton, Charles, Whitty, Christopher JM, Staedke, SG, Krishna Sanjeev, Taylor Terrie, Peter Kremsner, Taylor, Terrie, Dondorp, A, Reyburn, H, Hugh Reyburn, Seth Owusu-Agyei, Mills Anne, Wilfred Mbacham, Dorsey, G., D'Alessandro, Umberto, Krishna, S, Newton Paul N., Mike English, Binka, F, Binka, F., Anne Mills, Dondorp Arjen, D'Alessandro, U, Newton, C., Kamya, Moses R, Lubell, Y., Day, N.   +142 more
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Scrub typhus presenting as an acute abdomen

Journal of Global Infectious Diseases, 2014
Scrub typhus is a mite-borne infectious disease caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi, which presents as an acute febrile illness with headache, myalgia, breathlessness, and an eschar, a pathognomonic sign, in a varying proportion of patients.
PP Abhilash Kundavaram, Sohini Das, M Varghese George   +2 more
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Rational use of medicines : safety, challenges and potentials of electronic mobile devices for implementing a new algorithm for management of childhood illness (ALMANACH) in low and middle income countries [PDF]

, 2015
Nearly 7 million children die each year before the age of 5 despite the availability of effective low-cost interventions. Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) guidelines have proven, when used correctly, to improve quality of care and reduce
Shao, Amani Flexon
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Detection of Streptococcus pneumoniae from culture-negative dried blood spots by real-time PCR in Nigerian children with acute febrile illness

BMC Research Notes, 2018
Objectives Acute febrile illness is a common cause of hospital admission, and its associated infectious causes, of which a key bacterial causative agent is Streptococcus pneumoniae, contribute to substantial morbidity and mortality. We sought to evaluate
Pui-Ying Iroh Tam, Nelmary Hernandez-Alvarado, Mark R. Schleiss, Amy J. Yi, Fatimah Hassan-Hanga, Chuma Onuchukwu, Dominic Umoru, Stephen K. Obaro   +7 more
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Use of Scatterplot Patterns Derived from Automated Haematological Analysers in the Diagnosis of Acute Febrile Illnesses [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2020
Introduction: Acute Febrile Illness (AFI) is common in the tropics and caused by diverse pathogens. Dengue, malaria, enteric fever and scrub typhus are few common causes of AFI in India.
Ronit Juthani, Debdatta Basu
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Identifying Eschar in Acute Undifferentiated Febrile Illness

Medical Journal of Dr. D.Y. Patil Vidyapeeth, 2022
Scrub typhus is one of the common causes of acute undifferentiated febrile illnesses in India. The manifestations are protean, are nonspecific, and may lead to multiorgan dysfunction syndrome and mortality if prompt recognition and treatment is not received.
V A Arun, Vishnu G Nair, Mukesh Kamble
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Prevalence and Predictors of Urinary Tract Infection and Severe Malaria Among Febrile Children Attending Makongoro Health Centre in Mwanza City, North-Western Tanzania. [PDF]

, 2012
In malaria endemic areas, fever has been used as an entry point for presumptive treatment of malaria. At present, the decrease in malaria transmission in Africa implies an increase in febrile illnesses related to other causes among underfives.
Mazigo, Humphrey D, Bahati P Msaki, Msaki, Bahati P, Morona, Domenica, Stephen E Mshana, Adolfina Hokororo, Hokororo, Adolfina, Domenica Morona, Mshana, Stephen E, Humphrey D Mazigo   +9 more
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